Colombia: Zero Criminals On First Planes Of Deportees
The Washington Post reports:
President Donald Trump threatened to punish Colombia with tariffs, a travel ban and other sanctions to compel it to accept deportation flights carrying “Illegal Criminals.” But Colombian officials said there were no criminals among the two planeloads of migrants the U.S. government sent over Tuesday.
Among the more than 200 deportees were two pregnant women and more than 20 children, Colombian officials said after the flights landed. “They are not criminals,” Luis Gilberto Murillo, Colombia’s foreign minister, said in a video statement posted on X. “Being a migrant is not a crime.”
After taking office, Trump said he would remove violent criminals quickly, and he has enlisted the military, the FBI and other agencies to aid his deportation effort. “These are murderers. These are people that
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